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    • The Germans, 1933-45
    • By: Milton Mayer
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
    • First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,900 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42,248 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

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    • By: Annabel Crabb
    • Narrated by: Annabel Crabb
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • 'I need a wife'. It's a common joke among women juggling work and family, but it's no joke....

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    • Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,694 ratings
    • A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse....

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    • 2nd Edition
    • By: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Narrated by: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Want to make sense of the US Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents - and sparked ongoing debates along the way....

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    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,063 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,064 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

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    • How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
    • By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,424 ratings
    • Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism....

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy....

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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

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    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,146 ratings
    • In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption....

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    • A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
    • By: Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
    • Narrated by: Timothy Danko
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported....

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    • A History of the Greater United States
    • By: Daniel Immerwahr
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,670 ratings
    • Author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light....

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    • White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
    • By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy....

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    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 659 ratings
    • Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 587 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 757 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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    • FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
    • By: Jonathan Alter
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,113 ratings
    • Instead of becoming the dictator so many wanted in those first days, FDR rescued banks, put men to work immediately....

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